Witness in Lintz case feared retribution

Witness in Lintz case feared retribution

Michigan State Police Sgt. Mike McCarthy points to a monitor in the courtroom while testifying about photographic evidence taken from the scene of the Tarwacki slayings. McCarthy testified in the Cass County Circuit Court trial of Keith Lintz.

CASSOPOLIS - Loyalty to the Lintzes kept Patricia Wilds quiet about what she knew about Keith Lintz's behavior days after he allegedly killed a Howard Township couple, the woman testified Wednesday.

And she paid a price for testifying against the Niles man in a preliminary court hearing in January, she told the court. She said she was confronted by eight women who knocked out her front teeth and called her a "snitch."

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